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Printable surgical tech flashcards

Turn any surgical setup into printable instrument flashcards with real photos. Cut them out, take them into clinical, and quiz yourself on the real thing.

193 setups, any of them a deck
Download the 54-instrument deckThis one is free to everyone. Pro opens every other deck, printed or on screen.
What this is

Every surgical setup on this site can become a flashcard deck, on screen or as a print-ready PDF. The cards are built from the real instruments on that table, with the real photographs, so you are studying the case you are about to scrub rather than a generic list of thirty tools somebody printed in a textbook.

That is the whole difference. Commercial instrument card sets cost fifty dollars or more and are the same for everybody, which means half of them are instruments you will not touch this year and the ones you actually need are missing. Making your own takes hours you should be spending studying. Here the deck already exists, because somebody already wrote up the case.

What a deck looks like

Real photographs, not clip art.

The first eight cards of the 54 basic instruments deck, exactly as they print. Every card carries the instrument's own photograph from the library.

…and 46 more in that deck alone. Open it.

How it works

  1. Pick a caseAny setup in the library, or one you wrote yourself. The instruments on that table become the deck.
  2. Drill itGrade yourself card by card. The ones you miss come back sooner, until they stop coming back.
  3. Or print itThe same deck as a print-ready PDF. Cut them up, take them into clinical, quiz yourself on the drive in.

193 setups and 2,760 instruments in the library today, and every one of those setups is already a deck.

What it costs

Decks and downloads are Pro.

The setups and the instrument library are free to read, and always will be. Studying them as flashcards, and printing them, is the part Pro pays for.

or go annual

$4.99 off · burstsale, applied at checkout

Start free

The cases are free. Start there.

You do not need an account to read a setup, and you do not need Pro to write up your own. Find the case you are scrubbing next and see what is on the table.

  • Browse the setupsHundreds of real back tables and mayo stands across ten specialties.
  • Write your ownFree with an account, and your classmates can read it.
Browse the setups General setups are free to everyone, always.